Author |
Graham, Alan, 1934-
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Title |
A natural history of the New World [electronic resource] : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / Alan Graham. |
OCLC |
EBC648134 |
ISBN |
9780226306797 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780226306803 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0226306798 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0226306801 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780226306827 (e-book) |
Publisher |
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010. |
Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 387 p.) : ill., maps. |
LC Subject heading/s |
Paleobotany -- America -- Tertiary.
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Paleobotany -- America -- Cretaceous.
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Paleobotany -- America -- Cenozoic.
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Plant ecology -- America.
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Plants -- Evolution -- America.
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Plants, Fossil -- America.
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Other Genre heading/s |
Electronic books
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : the first modern ecosystems, middle Cretaceous through the early Eocene -- Transition : middle Eocene through the early Miocene -- Modernizing : middle Miocene through the Pliocene -- Latest touch : the great ice ages -- The bigger picture : implications of past environmental changes in the New World -- Pole to pole : a walk over the landscape, a walk through time. |
Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
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